Bibliographic record
Abstract
Contemporary Circus is a valuable sourcebook arranged in four distinctive sections under the topics of "Apparatus," "Politics," "Performers" and "New Work."Each section comprises a critical-theoretical introduction provided by the authors, as well as a collection of "voices."These "voices" are made up of transcribed and edited conversations the authors undertook with an impressively diverse range of circus artists, and each conversation benefits from accompanying images that richly illustrate the work discussed.In their introduction, the authors compellingly argue that scholarship on Contemporary Circus has not yet caught up with the form's popularity in the world and rightly note the continuing underrepresentation of circus within academic discussions of contemporary live performance.At the same time, they suggest that the field of critical circus studies has largely addressed the older forms of Traditional Circus and New Circus at the expense of more innovative and contemporary creative practices.This book attempts to identify and address persistent lacunae in both circus practice and circus scholarship.On the one hand, the authors argue for a more developed critical-theoretical framework in which to encounter and engage circus; on the other hand, they also advocate for the primacy of the artists' voices.Indeed, it is the circus performer who is at the heart of Contemporary Circus.While each of the four sections offers new ideas, information and points of focus, the first, "Apparatus," perhaps most pointedly challenges how we see and think about circus performance.This section interrogates the very notion of a circus apparatus, tracking back to the thinking of Michel Foucault and Giorgio
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".